Dear prospective applicants for graduate studies in the GSCU Department! You are invited to attend the one-hour Open House for Prospective Graduate Students to be held remotely by WebEx on Friday, November 22, 2024, at noon EST. We encourage you to attend if you are considering applying for a MA or PhD in our department […]
UConn Students Compete in Sustainability Challenge
UConn and Fort Hays State University Compete in Werth Innovation for Sustainability Challenge Two teams of students, one from UConn and one from Fort Hays State University, pitched their sustainability-focused start-up business plans to address food waste in the second Werth Innovation for Sustainability Challenge held on Nov. 2 at UConn. The full article can […]
UConn GSCU wins regional GeoBowl at Fall NESTVAL Conference.
Congratulations to the UConn GeoBowl Team! Hunter Jacobson, Jack Dennison, and James Hunter (pictured here with GeoBowl advisor Dr. Nat Trumbull) emerged as champions at the 2024 NESTVAL meeting. The regional AAG meeting took place October 25 & 26 at Westfield State University.
Geog2400: Intro to Sustainable Cities offered in both Winter & Spring semesters
Aaron Adams successfully defends his dissertation
Congratulations to Aaron Adams for successfully defending his dissertation, which is titled: Spatial Perspectives on COVID-19: Lessons for Future Pandemic Preparedness.
Weixuan Lyu Wins AAG Peter Gould Award
Congratulations to Weixuan Lyu, a Ph.D. candidate in Geography, for winning the Peter Gould Award from the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) at the 2024 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. This highly competitive award is meant to promote written scholarship by students across the health and medical geography field. Weixuan’s awarded […]
Jake Layburn successfully defends his thesis
Congratulations to Jake Layburn for successfully defending his thesis, which is titled: Health Geographic Perspective on Mpox Outbreak in the United States.
Quinn Molloy successfully defends her dissertation
Congratulations to Quinn Molloy for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Auto-dependency, Equity, and Place: A comprehensive assessment of household spending on transportation in the United States.
Yunhe Cui successfully defends her dissertation
Congratulations to Yunhe Cui for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Bike-sharing: Towards Equitable Urban Transportation.
Big news for Geography: CLAS adds two new departments
The UConn Board of Trustees voted at its meeting on Feb. 29 to establish a new department merging the Department of Geography with Urban and Community Studies and providing an administrative home for Environmental Studies. The new Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community and Urban Studies (GSCU) will draw on existing research and teaching strengths to […]